A team from KINFRA led by Shri. Elamaram Kareem, Hon’ble Minister for Industries & Commerce, Government of Kerala is visiting Netaji Apparel Park (NAP), New Tirupur on Saturday, the 13th March, 2010 at 9.30 a.m.

The phrase, ‘Necessity brings forth new initiatives’ could not have been truer for the Indian clothing exporting sector which was flying high, due to the stupendous growth achieved by the industry in the period from 2000-2007, but received a rude jolt when the economic crisis unveiled in September 2008.

On the spinners' threat to go on strike, the government may relax the quantitative restrictions on export of yarn, which was fixed and brought down to 35 million kg per month from 50 million kg. Informed sources revealed that the Textile Ministry is likely to convene a meeting of all the stockholders including representatives of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) and value-added sectors to resolve the issue amicably.

During field monitoring of the 2009 cotton crop in the state of Gujarat in western India, Monsanto1 and Mahyco scientists detected unusual survival of pink bollworm to first-generation single-protein Bollgard cotton. Testing was conducted to assess for resistance to Cry1Ac, the Bt protein in Bollgard cotton, and pink bollworm resistance to Cry1Ac was confirmed in four districts in Gujarat – Amreli, Bhavnagar, Junagarh and Rajkot. Gujarat is one of nine states in India where cotton is grown. To date, no insect resistance to Cry1Ac has been confirmed outside the four districts in Gujarat.

Indo-German Technical Textile business poised for huge growth Mumbai, 11 March, 2010. "Indian innovation combined with German Technical Textile technology leadership can boost bilateral trade, economic cooperation and take Indian technical textile industry to highest levels of growth", assured Mr. Walter Stechel, Consul General of Germany in Mumbai, at a Conference on "German Technology for Indian Technical Textiles" held in the city.

African apparel exports to the United States under a preferential trade arrangement have fallen in the last few years as the expiry date for the deal draws closer, a regional industry body said on Friday.